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Glen Ridge council certifies 2024 audit, adopts corrective-action plan and approves duplicate-payment refunds
Summary
The council certified a largely clean 2024 audit, approved a corrective-action plan addressing purchasing and dog-licensing processing issues, and approved refunds for duplicate tax or utility payments totaling part of approximately $3.4 million in claims presented to the council.
The Glen Ridge Borough Council approved three finance-related resolutions and one refund resolution during its meeting.
Councilor Lew presented Resolution 109-25 to approve claims and warrants, noting approximately $3.4 million in the current fund, much of which will be passed along to the Board of Education. The council moved, seconded and approved the claims resolution.
The council then certified the 2024 audited financial statements (Resolution 110-25). Councilor Lew described the audit as generally clean with a couple of exceptional items. The council followed by adopting Resolution 111-25, a corrective-action plan intended to address two compliance matters flagged in the audit: one concerning purchasing procedures and another related to the annual dog-licensing process and the timing of processing incoming checks.
Councilor Lew summarized the corrective-action plan as aiming to resolve the purchasing and licensing-process findings and described those items as relatively small compared with the overall clean audit.
Later in the meeting Councilor Lew moved Resolution 114-25 to refund duplicate tax or utility payments made by property owners or their mortgage companies; that resolution was seconded and approved.
All four finance-related measures were carried by the council. The clerk called the roll for each vote; the transcript records affirmative roll-call results without a full list of individual member votes for every item.
Next steps: the corrective-action plan will be implemented by borough administration according to the plan provisions; the clerk will process approved refunds to affected payers.
